note ikegami <p>The function to extract tagged data can indeed be used. <c> my @links; my $extractor = gen_extract_tagged('[[', ']]', qr/(?:(?!\[\[).)*/); for (;;) { (my $link, $text) = $extractor->($text); last if not defined $link; push(@links, $link); } </c> <p>Untested. 571798 571818